The first joint meeting of ISSOL: The International Astrobiology Society and Bioastronomy (Commission 51 of the International Astronomical Union) known as ORIGINS 2011 was held in Montpellier (France) in July, 2011. Many of the invited talks are now available to view online.

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things. — Lewis Carroll